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Better Call Saul Recap: When You Can’t Run Any Further
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 3, “Rock and Hard Place.” For our recap of Episode 2, click here] Case Summary While other things happen in the third episode of Better Call Saul, “Rock and Hard Place” should be forever remembered as The Nacho Episode, for very good reason. Nacho isn’t the first series regular to perish over the course of the show’s run — that honor belongs to Chuck McGill (Michael McKean). But Michael Mando delivers a simply staggering performance in his theoretical swan song, facing a fate which might have seemed inevitable from the beginning, but is still heartbreaking to watch. Writer/director Gordon Smith delivers Nacho to his end with an episode so deliberately paced that the dread builds more and more with each de...
Barry’s Anthony Carrigan on Showing a Whole New Side to NoHo Hank in Season 3
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Barry, Season 3, Episode 1, “forgiving jeff.”] It wasn’t perhaps the love story you were expecting to bloom when the dark HBO comedy Barry first premiered, but that just makes it a well-earned and also unexpected delight: Following the events of the Season 2 finale, as seen in the Season 3 premiere, the overwhelmingly cheerful NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and rival mob leader Cristobal (Michael Irby) are now romantically involved. Of course, Barry is not exactly a show built for happy endings, especially for the confirmed mobsters at its core, but for right now, Carrigan is just happy to play a new dimension to NoHo Hank, one which builds upon the character’s established desire to care for others, but with a whole new edge. “I’m excited t...
Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger on How Real Hollywood Can Be Just as Brutal as Swimming With Sharks
Kiernan Shipka has some unconventional advice for getting to know a new co-star — do drugs with them. Or pretend to do drugs with them, as she tells Consequence. The Mad Men and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina alum stars with Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, National Treasure) in Swimming With Sharks, a six-episode limited series that was originally produced to debut on the dearly departed streaming service Quibi. After Quibi shut down literally as the series was finishing up production, it (along with other Quibi series) was rescued by the Roku Channel for distribution. Based on the acclaimed 1994 indie film about a young assistant dealing with a tyrannical Hollywood boss, creator Kathleen Robertson flipped the genders of the leads to introduce the character of Lou Simms (Shipka), an as...
Kerry Washington Cast in The Simpsons as Bart’s New Teacher
Bart Simpson has had a revolving door of burnout substitute teachers since the 2013 retirement of the beloved Ms. Krabappel, but now, The Simpsons has finally found an adequate permanent replacement. The sitcom has cast Kerry Washington as Rayshelle Peyton, Bart’s new teacher (via Entertainment Weekly). Washington’s Ms. Peyton is a kind, competent educator and a complete departure from the jaded Ms. Krabappel (voiced by the late Marcia Wallace). While Ms. Krabappel served as Bart’s foil more than his role model, Ms. Peyton takes a different approach to education — by actually teaching. “She’s a little too honest, in a very, very sweet, quirky way,” Simpsons co-executive producer Carolyn Omine told EW. “She has a very ambitious project, and she seems like she’s going to be able to at l...
Challenge Competitors: Here Are The Season 3 All Stars
The Challenge — aka the “most cutthroat game that has ever been invented” (Wes’ take) — is returning with a brand-new lineup of all stars. And the “elite group” of competitors is ready to break the mold (a reference to the song in the trailer below). From previous All Stars finalists to faces we haven’t seen in several years (even decades) — plus, every previous winner from this spinoff — check out the entire Season 3 cast below. Keep up with MTV News for all updates, and do not miss the All Stars premiere, streaming exclusively on May 11 only on Paramount+. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful peo...
J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek Hide a Space Portal in Trailer for Night Sky: Watch
Coming on the heels of Prime Video’s acclaimed neo-Western series Outer Range is another sci-fi show titled Night Sky, premiering on the streamer May 20th. The series centers around an elderly couple hiding the secret of their backyard portal that transports them to space, and you can watch the official trailer below. Night Sky stars Oscar winners J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek as Franklin and Irene York, who have been traveling to a deserted planet through a chamber buried in their backyard for many years. An enigmatic young man pops up out of nowhere during one of their trips, threatening to expose the secret they hold so dear. In the trailer, Simmons and Spacek are seen descending into the mysterious chamber through a trap door in a shed behind their house. In the blink of an eye, they e...
Juliette ‘Went Running Back’ To Sam On Siesta Key (And Everyone’s Talking About It)
Don’t say we didn’t warn ya: “There’s always more to the story.” Just when everyone (us included) thought Juliette and Sam were over on Siesta Key, the tables turned. Apparently, Sam went over to Juliette’s house to play checkers chat, and she said that if he ever wants to talk to her again, he needs to “stop inviting these girls around.” And while Juliette was hesitant to get back together because of “how embarrassing it would be” following those social media pics, Sam seemed visibly hopeful. “I love and care about the girl so much, and if it turns out that we start dating again and everything’s good, that would be amazing,” he said. So Sam sent Meghan from Miami pack...
We Own This City Is a Comprehensive, Heartbreaking Account of a City in Ruins: Review
The Pitch: The tragic death of Freddie Gray in 2015 while in police custody was a watershed moment for Baltimore; Black communities and activists erupted in protest against the overwhelming presence of (and abuse by) Baltimore Police Department officers, who frequently dispensed justice at the end of a baton. And in 2017, the city saw the closest thing that’s come to accountability, with the arrests of the members of BPD’s Gun Trace Task Force — a unit specifically tasked with taking guns and drugs off the streets of Baltimore, but who instead used their institutional power to enrich themselves. Drugs planted in cars to justify arrests, seized cash going missing, violent crackdowns on anyone who looks at them funny: it was just another day on the job, particularly for the GTTF’s hothe...
Nicholas Braun Writing HBO Series About a Struggling 2000s Indie Band
Succession star and NYC nightlife darling Nicholas Braun is ready to put his music nerddom in the spotlight. The actor is teaming up with producer Chris Buongiorno to develop a half-hour series for HBO about an indie band in the early 2000s, Variety reports. Titled One for the Road, the series is described as a “candid and intimate story of a talented but dysfunctional band struggling to survive the rapidly changing landscape of independent music” in the aughts. “If anybody wants us to join their band for research please let us know,” Braun wrote on Instagram. Will this band embody the post-punk revivalism of The Strokes and Interpol? Will it initiate a much-needed electroclash renaissance by emulating long-forgotten greats like Fischerspooner or Ladytron? Or will ...
Ex On The Beach Betrayal: Should Arisce Forgive Mike For Secretly Kissing David?
If the heart wants what the heart wants, Mike of Ex on the Beach might benefit from elective consultation with a cardiologist. During tonight’s episode, the house’s resident Energizer Bunny got his cover blown when his kiss with David was outed, something he’d kept secret from his ex Arisce. So after weeks of Mike insisting he wants Arisce back, will the Shack of Secrets revelations change things, and is it worth Arisce’s time to wait and find out? Let’s rewind: After the introduction of new Singles Kyra and Bryce to the house, the bungalow began to evolve into a dangerous game of topsy-turvy. On one hand, Derynn finally seemed to be warming up to her Ex Ricky, who was determined to make things right, while David — initially dead-set on fixing things with his Ex Dani R...
CNN+ Announces It’s Shutting Down Three Weeks After Launch
CNN+, the billion-dollar bet that CNN’s future depended on digital streaming, will be shutting down at the end of the month, The New York Times and CNN report. The news comes scarcely three weeks after CNN+ launched on March 29th. The streaming offshoot of the cable news titan was championed by former CEO Jeff Zucker, who had planned to spend $1 billion on CNN+ over four years. But Zucker departed in February after failing to disclose a relationship with CNN’s marketing chief, and the future of the platform fell further into doubt last month, when CNN’s parent company WarnerMedia finalized a merger with Discovery to become Warner Bros. Discovery. Its fate may have been sealed when Warner Bros. Discovery announced that HBO Max and Discovery+ would be combined into one streaming platfor...
Real World Regret: Will Julie Apologize To Danny And Melissa During Their Homecoming?
A “controversial history” between Julie and several of her roommates was first teased in the trailer for The Real Homecoming: New Orleans. Now, during the premiere episode — streaming exclusively on Paramount+ — the backstory which prompted this statement by Danny was revealed. The first cast member to expose their tension with Julie was Melissa, who touched down in NOLA with her own supply of toilet paper. The now-mother-of-three stated she was “genuinely excited to see a lot of them” when she was on the verge of reuniting with all of her Y2K roomies. And when she first met up with Danny before making their way to the new house (just like they first met in 2000!), she quipped “oh girl, I’m worried” when he stated he wasn’t really...
